Last Sunday, I watched David Attenborough's autobiographical film about his career in wildlife documentaries, where he is still going strong as he approaches 100. All of us have likely heard his voice even if we may not know who he is. Attenborough, it turns out from interviews, was once skeptical of climate change, and his … Continue reading Thoughts on Attenborough’s A LIFE ON OUR PLANET and Some Platonic Reflections on Food Waste for Earth Day 2024
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How to Do a Libation for Gaia
That great mundane divinity, the Earth, is the common Hestia of Gods and people. This divinity, on whose fertile surface reclining, as on the soft bosom of a mother or a nurse, we ought to celebrate with hymns, and incline to with filial affection, as to the source of our existence.Theophrastus, tr. Thomas Taylor, VII … Continue reading How to Do a Libation for Gaia
Merch, Minimalism, and Revering the Earth
Humans are the only animal that leaves its trash everywhere is a phrase with many variants. I often see it online set against photographs of foxes choking on plastic bags, dead gulls’ stomachs burst open with straws and legos, or the ocean as it exists today outside of the polished documentaries, plastic bobbing up and … Continue reading Merch, Minimalism, and Revering the Earth
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